Five Days from Defeat

A historian explores “ with forensic precision” the dramatic turning point that changed the course of the Great War ( The Scotsman ).   On March 21, 1918, Germany initiated one of the most ferocious offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on Allied positions in a series of attacks that caused massive casualties, separated British and French forces, and drove the British back toward the Channel ports.   Five days later, as the Germa